Title: Author Dropdown Selection Missing
Last modified: May 21, 2021

---

# Author Dropdown Selection Missing

 *  [csburdick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csburdick/)
 * (@csburdick)
 * [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-dropdown-selection-missing/)
 * On one of my websites, suddenly the author selection dropdown menu isn’t showing
   in the Gutenberg edit post screen. I don’t have any option to select it.
 * Another site, on the same theme, is fine.
 * Here’s what I’m seeing: [https://i.gyazo.com/339637237fca12fc88121f3cebcc6766.png](https://i.gyazo.com/339637237fca12fc88121f3cebcc6766.png)
 * I tried Health Check’s troubleshooting mode and disabling plugins, but no luck.
 * There are multiple users with the publish ability, and I can select the author
   on the Posts page using Quick Edit.
 * Thanks for the help!

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-dropdown-selection-missing/#post-14468399)
 * May be:
    – You only had one user who was in a user role with the ability to write
   posts. – OR, You are a Subscriber or Contributor — The Subscriber and Contributor
   roles are the lowest two roles in WordPress. They have the fewest permissions.
 *  Thread Starter [csburdick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csburdick/)
 * (@csburdick)
 * [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-dropdown-selection-missing/#post-14469095)
 * Thanks [@t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) but I’ve already tried
   that, and it’s not the case.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Author Dropdown Selection Missing’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [csburdick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csburdick/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-dropdown-selection-missing/#post-14469095)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics